Imperfect Perfection: A COTE Fanfiction

Chapter 3: Defectives

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Arisu was right — I was disliking my time hanging out with them. Sudou, Yamauchi, and me were like third-wheels. Our existence were erased.

While the rest were talking with one another, I was regretting coming here. Can we even be count as third-wheels anymore? I don't even know anymore.

"Man! This sucks! Us 3 are totally being ignored!" Sudou complained, grumbling as we looked at the backs of Hirata, Karuizawa, Kushida, and Ike.

"I agree! If I knew this was going to happen, I wouldn't have came here," said Yamauchi, complaining as his precious friend was being dragged away from him.

Wow, they were actually very sad. While I indeed didn't like hanging out here, It was not to the point where I was actually sad. It wasn't that bad to be totally honest.

The were just perceiving it like it was the end of the world or something along those lines. Actually, it's exactly along those lines. Pitiful really.

If I was a normal person, I would've laughed. But, as you know, I can't laugh for the sake of my life. Quite an unfortunate thing on my part.

I looked around, ignoring the ruckus all around me. As we walked, I kept on hearing the other 2 complain about being lonely, and that they were jealous of Hirata and Ike.

Wow, they were jealous of Ike? I mean, I understand if they were jealous of Hirata, but Ike? That certainly is quite the discovery. I heard a phrase before that seemed to fit Ike quite well.

I think it was somewhere along the lines of: "He's down bad."

Whether that's the correct saying is unknown to me, but I am 99.9% sure that it is the phrase that I am looking for. And I'm pretty sure this phrase fits with a lot of the other boys in class.

They were truly. . . Down bad.

That doesn't roll off of my tongue as smoothly as I wanted it to be. I'd better try and avoid saying those words. Anyway, I think it's better if I let things play out like I need it to be.

While I did say I would crush anyone or anything that dares threaten my desire for freedom and ordinary life — I'm simply too lazy to do so right now.

Maybe in the future. Actually, I already did something and that was threaten an upperclassmen with my methods. It worked like it should and I got the information needed for the future.

I do suspect that I'll be doing more scheming in the future. But the thing is. . . I need a cover so my actions behind the scenes don't look or seem so conspicuous.

Luckily, I already have a plan for that. I already have a person in mind who I can use as a cover. They shall take all the credit, and I'll continue to do things behind the scenes.

Of course, it can't be someone random like Sudou or Yamauchi — people will have doubts in their abilities. That's why I'm going to use the best possible person in class as the cover up.

Horikita Suzune.

She's most definitely smart. She's competent enough to where her abilities won't be doubted whatsoever. Well, maybe at first. But over time, the doubt shall subside.